Mortal Love: A Novel
 

Mortal Love: A Novel

by Elizabeth Hand

In the Victorian Age, a mysterious and irresistible woman becomes entwined in the lives of several artists, both as a muse and as the object of all-consuming obsession. Radborne Comstock, one of the early twentieth century's most brilliant young painters, is helpless under her dangerous spell.

In modern-day London, journalist Daniel Rowlands meets a beguiling woman who holds the... (read more)

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Judith L
  • Rated 5 stars

i finally finished this wonderful, scary book..anyone out there with an Artistic Temperament...read this as a cautionary tale...anyone interested in the power of Myth...and the possibility that there is another world beyond ours...separated by the thinnest of veils..or light...there is much Light in this book though it is not there for illumination...Artistic Inspiration...Obsession..the desire to control that which we don't really comprehend...wrapped in a Fairy Tale that spans...

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Shawna K
  • Rated 2 stars

I was very bored with this book. .Should have gave it up early on but read it through to the end..... A waste of time

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  • Rated 3.6 stars
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  • Rated 3.75 stars
 

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